System for and method of prioritizing menu information

• US 20040100505A1
• Filed: 11/21/2002
• Published: 05/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Cazier, Robert Paul
• Application Number:
  US10/301,020
• Publication Number:
  US 20040100505A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/811
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

A method for ordering selectable functions of a peripheral device comprising coupling the peripheral device to a remote device, generating function selection history, and configuring the selectable functions displayed by the peripheral device in accordance with function selection history using data transferred from the remote device to the peripheral device.

Claims

1. A method for ordering selectable functions of a peripheral device comprising:

coupling said peripheral device to a remote device;

generating a function selection history; and

configuring selectable functions displayed by said peripheral device in accordance with the function selection history using data transferred from said remote device to said peripheral device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said configuring using data comprises configuring using prioritization data.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said coupling to a remote device comprises coupling to remote device that generates said function selection history.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said coupling to a remote device comprises coupling a camera with selectable functions to a remote device.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein said coupling to a remote device comprises coupling a camera comprised of a configurable user interface to a remote device.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein said coupling to a remote device comprises coupling a camera with selectable sharing functions to a remote device.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

resetting said generated function selection history.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said configuring in accordance with the function selection history comprises configuring in accordance with the function selection history using XML data.

9. A digital image acquisition system comprised of:

means for acquiring digital images;

means for providing a plurality of selectable functions; and

means for ordering said plurality of selectable functions according to frequency of use.

10. The acquisition system of claim 9 wherein said means for ordering further comprises means for connecting a computer system communicatively to said means for acquiring digital images.

11. The acquisition system of claim 10 wherein said means for ordering may be selectively disabled.

12. The acquisition system of claim 9 wherein said means for ordering includes means for prioritizing said plurality of selectable functions.

13. The acquisition system of claim 9 wherein said means for providing a plurality of selectable functions is a menu display of selectable functions.

14. The acquisition system of claim 9 wherein said means for ordering further includes means for generating function selection history data.

15. The acquisition system of claim 14 wherein said means for generating function selection history generates prioritization data.

16. A system for ordering selectable functions that are displayed on a device comprising:

a device;

a display disposed on said device;

a menu of selectable functions displayed on said display; and

an analysis device for analyzing user selection of selectable functions, said analysis device communicatively connectable to said device such that said analysis device configures said menu of selectable functions according to analysis of user selection of selectable functions.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein said menu of selectable functions displays the most frequently selected selectable function at the top of said menu.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein said analysis device may be disabled from configuring said menu of selectable functions.

19. The system of claim 16 wherein said analysis device configures said menu of selectable functions using prioritization data.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein said prioritization data is XML data.

21. The system of claim 16 wherein said device is a digital image acquisition device.

22. A computer program product comprising computer-readable code stored on computer-readable medium, said computer program comprising:

computer readable program code means for generating a function selection history;

computer readable program code means for generating a prioritization file; and

computer readable program code means for reorganizing a selectable function menu on a peripheral device connected to a computer.

23. A method for ordering selectable functions of a peripheral device comprising:

coupling said peripheral device to a remote device;

generating a function category selection history; and

configuring selectable function categories displayed by said peripheral device in accordance with the function category selection history using data transferred from said remote device to said peripheral device.

24. An apparatus for ordering selectable functions of a peripheral device comprising:

means for generating a prioritization file using a peripheral device function selection history; and

means for reorganizing peripheral device selectable functions in accordance with said prioritization file.

25. The apparatus of claim 24 wherein said means for reorganizing peripheral device selectable functions may be selectively disabled.

27. The peripheral device of claim 25 wherein said prioritization file data is XML data.

28. The peripheral device of claim 25 wherein said selectable function menu displays the most frequently selected selectable function at the top of said menu.

26. A peripheral device comprising

a selectable function menu displayed by said peripheral device;

said peripheral device communicatively connectable to a remote device; and

said peripheral device selectable function menu configurable in accordance with prioritization file data communicated to said peripheral device by said remote device.